تو سفرکردی ز نطفه تا بعقل ** نه بگامی بود نه منزل نه نقل

You have journeyed from the seed to rationality: ’twas not by (taking) a step or (travelling from stage to) stage or moving from one place to another.

سیر جان بی چون بود در دور و دیر ** جسم ما از جان بیاموزید سیر 1980

The journey of the spirit is unconditioned in respect of Time and Space: our body learned from the spirit how to journey.

سیر جسمانه رها کرد او کنون ** می‌رود بی‌چون نهان در شکل چون

Now it has relinquished the bodily manner of journeying: it moves unconditioned, (though) masked in the form of conditionedness.

گفت روزی می‌شدم مشتاق‌وار ** تا ببینم در بشر انوار یار

He (Daqúqí) said, “One day I was going along like him that yearns, that I might behold in man the radiance of the Beloved,

تا ببینم قلزمی در قطره‌ای ** آفتابی درج اندر ذره‌ای

That I might behold an ocean in a drop of water, a sun enclosed in a mote.

چون رسیدم سوی یک ساحل بگام ** بود بیگه گشته روز و وقت شام

When I came on foot to a certain shore, the day had turned late, and ’twas eventide.

نمودن مثال هفت شمع سوی ساحل

The apparition of what seemed like seven candles in the direction of the shore.

هفت شمع از دور دیدم ناگهان ** اندر آن ساحل شتابیدم بدان 1985

Of a sudden I beheld from afar seven candles and hastened along the shore towards them.

نور شعله‌ی هر یکی شمعی از آن ** بر شده خوش تا عنان آسمان

The light of the flame of each candle thereof ascended beauteously to the loft of the sky.

خیره گشتم خیرگی هم خیره گشت ** موج حیرت عقل را از سر گذشت

I became amazed, (so that) even amazement (itself) became amazed: the waves of bewilderment passed over the head of my understanding.

این چگونه شمعها افروختست ** کین دو دیده‌ی خلق ازینها دوختست

(I thought), ‘What kind of candles are these (that) He hath lighted, so that the eyes of His creatures are screened from them?’